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Post by SharksFan99 on Mar 6, 2021 20:30:23 GMT 10
Inspired by a new post by Cassie. A lot of people tend to regard both the early 2000s and early 2010s as being among the most "kid-friendly" eras for pop culture within recent decades, so I thought it would be interesting to see how people's viewpoints on this would look in poll form. In terms of pop culture, what would you personally consider to be the most "kid-friendly" era of the 21st Century and why?
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Post by SharksFan99 on Mar 6, 2021 20:57:28 GMT 10
I went with the early 2000s. The technology struck a perfect balance, animated movies were of a high standard across the board (eg. "Shrek", "Finding Nemo"), many of the chart hits of the time were bright and bubbly thanks to the popularity of teen-pop and pop-punk, and there was still an overall degree of hope/optimism for the future. Not to mention the fact that critically acclaimed and well-regarded animated shows such as pre-movie Spongebob, Rugrats and The Powerpuff Girls were still in production at the time.
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Post by Cassie on Mar 7, 2021 1:39:17 GMT 10
The early 2010s were super kid-friendly. The kid shows that came out then like Adventure Time, Gumball and Kid Buttowksi are really inviting and silly. Hell, bronies were all based around My Little Pony FIM and that was originally for preschoolers. Not to mention that most of the kids shows were actually good. Minecraft started to get popular then, video games in general felt more kid-friendly too. They were just more inviting than previous years and the politically unstable, unmotivated years that were to come.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Apr 29, 2021 22:03:33 GMT 10
From the "Least kid-friendly era?" thread (posting it here so it's on-topic): 2008 to 2017 or so isn’t bad actually better than 2000-2001 and 2005-2007 but the only thing that holds it back is creativity in kids culture isn’t as strong and it feels more manufactured I agree with you in regards to the early-mid 2010s. In many ways, I actually feel as though the kid culture of the early 2010s in particular is leagues ahead of the stuff I personally grew up with during the mid-late 2000s. I've never watched any of them myself, but I can honestly see the appeal in movies/TV shows such as "Despicable Me", "Wreck It Ralph", "Adventure Time" etc. The early 2010s also had "Angry Birds", "Doodle Jump", the MCU, iPads/tablets, upbeat, party-themed music (electropop), and just a more engaging/progressive feel to the pop culture of the time. I mean, just imagine how great it would have been to have been a little kid growing up with superhero movies like "The Avengers", "Thor", "Guardians of the Galaxy" etc. It would be awesome! When it comes to what I grew up with, I would personally consider 2004-2007 to have been the better era for kids culture. 2008 and 2009 were actually a pretty mixed bag, and were a noticeable step-down in quality from the culture of the previous years. When I was 9, I actually started to watch more and more '60s cartoons (eg. "Wacky Races", "The Flintstones") on Boomerang due to how stale both Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network were becoming by that point.
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Post by sman12 on Apr 30, 2021 7:02:11 GMT 10
I'm obviously gonna be biased here and pick the early 2010s as well. I totally understand the viewpoints of those who grew up and/or picked the early 2000s since there was a plethora of kid-friendly content to choose from with the omnipresent popularity of shows from Disney Channel, Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon, PS2/GC/Xbox/GBA consoles, bright and radio-friendly pop-punk, pop-R&B, etc. But I personally think that with the slow economic recovery, uplifting club/electropop music, a new era of story-driven kids' cartoons (Adventure Time, Regular Show, Gravity Falls, etc), Angry Birds, Minecraft, and Smosh-era YouTube, the early 2010s just seemed more optimistic to me.
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